Sublime

Social justice—the principle, not the ideology—can only be served if we have consistent principles. Women’s rights, LGBT rights, and racial or caste equality must either be the right of all people or of none.

Looking to the future, some neuroscientists envision a dramatic transformation of criminal law. David Eagleman, for one, welcomes a time when “we may someday find that many types of bad behavior have a basic biological explanation [and] eventually think about bad decision making in the same way we think about any physical process, such as diabetes

Dès l’école, à tous les futurs citoyens, il serait bon d’exposer que la prison n’est pas l’expression d’une volonté de punition et de représailles, mais, comme l’avait énoncé dès le xviiie siècle le criminologue Beccaria, un moyen de protection de la société. Il est nécessaire d’extirper des esprits l’idée, si profondément ancrée dans notre psychis

Whites to be jailed for drug offenses. Nonviolent Black drug offenders remain in prisons for about the same length of time (58.7 months) as violent White criminals (61.7 months). In 2016, Black and Latinx people were still grossly overrepresented in the prison population at 56 percent, double their percentage of the U.S. adult population. White peo

If the law is in your favor, pound the law. If the facts are in your favor, pound the facts. If neither is in your favor, pound the table.

” Levitt’s deadpan spunkiness emerges throughout the essay. She is a proud reporter, insisting on the exterior, matter-of-fact, impersonal quality of her work, writes Gopnik. But she refused to become a journalist. “A reporter,” according to Levitt, “says what she sees; a photojournalist sees what everyone else is saying.”